NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 23, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics have been deceptively ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can ...

Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups: "This product is made with XX% recycled plastic." Verifying such claims, however, ...

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous materials, essential to daily life as we know it. Production is growing at a rate of 3.4 percent—three times faster than our global population growth.

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Recycling is one answer to the growth in plastic waste but treating “wash water” used to clean recycled plastic before re-use can produce safer recycled ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway also used by fungi.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Every week, millions of Americans toss ...

For yoghurt and quark pots, around 15% of recyclable material is lost. NTCP, TNO and partners are investigating how to ...

Tossing everything into the blue bin (or however it’s sorted in your area) feels like a good deed for the planet. People ...